Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.
Monday, October 31 2016, 5.30 pm
The Public History of Scotland and Caribbean Slavery
Louise Welsh (Glasgow), Stephen Mullen (Glasgow) and Michael Hopcroft (Glasgow Caledonian)
Venue: Room 202, 3 University Gardens, Glasgow
Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies
Monday, October 31 2016, 7.30 pm
John Tweedie Memorial Lecture, It’s A Dogs Life
Hamish Coghill
Venue: Gibson Craig Memorial Hall, Lanark Road West, Currie
Currie & District Local History Society
Monday, October 31 2016, 7.30 pm
Photographs of Cupar
Allan Carr
Venue: Age Concern Building, Provost Wynd, Cupar
Tuesday, November 1 2016, 1 pm
“Imprest on vellum": Lowland language and the early American republic, c. 1800-1830
Sean Murphy (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Room G16, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School
Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies
Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop Series
Tuesday, November 1 2016, 5.30 pm
Memory and the work of forgetting: telling protest in rural England
Dr Carl Griffin, Reader in Historical Geography, University of Sussex
Venue: Ross House, Dornoch
University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History
This paper offers an initial attempt to think through how, against markers of traumatic pasts, English rural communities in the long eighteenth century attempted both to forget and to reinscribe the past in usable ways.
Tuesday, November 1 2016, 6.45 pm for 7.15 pm
The Life of Eric Liddell
Sue Caton
Venue: Morningside Parish Church Hall
Morningside Heritage Association
Tuesday, November 1 2016, 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Bangour War Hospital (incl. Hopetoun and Polkemmet Aux. Hospitals) WWI
Sybil Cavanagh
Venue: Lanthorn Community Education Complex, Kenilworth Rise, Livingston EH54 6JL
West Lothian Family History Society
Tuesday, November 1 2016, 7.30 pm
From Cannon to Steam Propulsion
Professor Michael Moss
Venue: Fairweather Hall, Barrhead Road, Newton Mearns, G77 6BB
The origins of Clyde Engineering.
Tuesday, November 1 2016, 7.30 pm
The Victoria Cross
Alexander Hall
Venue: Kilmarnock College, Hill Street, Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock & District History Group
£2 donation for non-members
Wednesday, November 2 2016, 2 pm - 3 pm
The Argyll Papers
Alison Diamond
Venue: New Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh
Professor Allan Macinnes (Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde and expert on Highland history), has described the Argyll Papers held at Inveraray Castle as ‘one of the most important private archives in Britain.’ Alison will talk about the archives, their history and content, and the current focus on raising the profile of the collection and making it more accessible. She will speak about the forthcoming partnership project with Argyll and Bute Council, Written in the Landscape, which will catalogue collections of family papers and conserve the maps and plans held at Inveraray Castle, working with local communities and heritage centres throughout Argyll. (New Register House)
Wednesday, November 2 2016, 4 pm
Lochbrown Landscape Proect: the hidden archaeology of a prehistoric landscape
Kirsty Millican, HES
Venue: Lecture Theatre (109), Gregory Building
University of Glasgow
Wednesday, November 2 2016, 7.30 pm
Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney: Process, Temporality and Context
Dr Antonia Thomas
Venue: Orkney College
Launch of Dr. Antonia Thomas' exciting new book on Neolithic Art, plus the chance to buy the book at a discount.
Thursday, November 3 2016, 7 pm
Annual General Meeting + When, how and why Scottish Burials changed dramatically
Dr Ed Small
Venue: The 252 Memorial Hall, Betson Street, Markinch
Free to members and £2 for non members
Thursday, November 3 2016, 7.30 pm
Ken the Horse of Hawick
Ian Landles BEM
Coldstream and District Local History Society
Thursday, November 3 2016, 7.30 pm
John Sutherland
Todd Warnock
Venue: Royal Dornoch Golf Club
Friday, November 4 2016, 11.00 am
S R Crockett: Penicuik Minister and Best Selling Author
Pam Stell
Venue: National Mining Memorial Centre, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Dalkeith EH22 4QN
National Mining Museum Scotland
Saturday, November 5 2016, 10 am - 12 pm
Annual Coffee Morning
Venue: Dunn Memorial Hall, Largs
North Ayrshire Family History Society
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